Betty Strong Center to exhibit Highway 20 photos
Posted: Wednesday, May 28, 2008
SIOUX CITY -- "Highway 20: Encounters with Genuine Life" opens at noon Sunday, June 8, at the Betty Strong Encounter Center on Sioux City’s Missouri Riverfront. The exhibition includes 66 images by award-winning photographer Matt Miller.
The show travels from Fort Dodge, Iowa, some 500 miles west to Harrison, Neb. Miller will present a program about the project at 2 p.m. June 8 in the Stanley Evans Auditorium at the Encounter Center. Admission will be free.
Miller photographed Northwest Iowa Highway 20 images for the Encounter Center in spring 2008. He shot the Nebraska photographs on assignment for the Omaha World-Herald from December 2006 through early 2008.
The Rev. Don Doll and Carol McCabe of Magis Productions, Creighton University, edited and designed the show which was commissioned by the Encounter Center in the interest of commemorating a history of encounters with the people, land and rivers of the region. Doll is photo consultant to the Encounter Center and the adjoining Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center.
"Many of us tend to think of Highway 20 as an unremarkable stretch of mostly two-lane road," said Marcia Poole, director of the center. "But, if we take time to give it a good, long look, we can find remarkably beautiful places and compelling people with stories to tell. Miller’s pictures inspire us to spend more time and look more deeply at the places we call home."
Miller’s images capture small-town life, with parades, a picnic, Saturday morning at the barbershop and St. Patrick's Day at a local bar. He finds football games and ice fishing; homecoming festivities and family time; neighbors visiting and ranch hands wrestling with the branding chores.
Miller spent three days photographing the Crazy Horse and Veterans' Trail Ride from Fort Robinson, Neb., to Pine Ridge, S.D. From the air, he shot the Northwest Iowa Loess Hills; the Nebraska Sand Hills; the Missouri River; and Woodbury County farmland. In Sioux City, he waited for the birth of a baby. In almost forgotten Montrose, Neb., he watched a family bury a loved one in a tiny but unforgettable cemetery.
Dozens of other photographs reveal slices of life along the 500-mile segment of Highway 20. The historic road runs from Boston, Mass., to Newport, Ore.
Miller has been an Omaha World-Herald staff photographer since 2002. The Brookings, S.D., native also has worked at the Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn; the Wichita (Kan.) Eagle; the Idaho Statesman, Boise, and the Arlington (Texas) Morning News. He's won national, regional and state awards, including 2007 runner-up Nebraska Photographer of the Year and 2002 through 2006 Nebraska Photographer of the Year. A graduate of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Miller served as staff photographer, senior photographer and photo chief at the Daily Nebraskan. He was graduated in 2000.
The show travels from Fort Dodge, Iowa, some 500 miles west to Harrison, Neb. Miller will present a program about the project at 2 p.m. June 8 in the Stanley Evans Auditorium at the Encounter Center. Admission will be free.
Miller photographed Northwest Iowa Highway 20 images for the Encounter Center in spring 2008. He shot the Nebraska photographs on assignment for the Omaha World-Herald from December 2006 through early 2008.
The Rev. Don Doll and Carol McCabe of Magis Productions, Creighton University, edited and designed the show which was commissioned by the Encounter Center in the interest of commemorating a history of encounters with the people, land and rivers of the region. Doll is photo consultant to the Encounter Center and the adjoining Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center.
"Many of us tend to think of Highway 20 as an unremarkable stretch of mostly two-lane road," said Marcia Poole, director of the center. "But, if we take time to give it a good, long look, we can find remarkably beautiful places and compelling people with stories to tell. Miller’s pictures inspire us to spend more time and look more deeply at the places we call home."
Miller’s images capture small-town life, with parades, a picnic, Saturday morning at the barbershop and St. Patrick's Day at a local bar. He finds football games and ice fishing; homecoming festivities and family time; neighbors visiting and ranch hands wrestling with the branding chores.
Miller spent three days photographing the Crazy Horse and Veterans' Trail Ride from Fort Robinson, Neb., to Pine Ridge, S.D. From the air, he shot the Northwest Iowa Loess Hills; the Nebraska Sand Hills; the Missouri River; and Woodbury County farmland. In Sioux City, he waited for the birth of a baby. In almost forgotten Montrose, Neb., he watched a family bury a loved one in a tiny but unforgettable cemetery.
Dozens of other photographs reveal slices of life along the 500-mile segment of Highway 20. The historic road runs from Boston, Mass., to Newport, Ore.
Miller has been an Omaha World-Herald staff photographer since 2002. The Brookings, S.D., native also has worked at the Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn; the Wichita (Kan.) Eagle; the Idaho Statesman, Boise, and the Arlington (Texas) Morning News. He's won national, regional and state awards, including 2007 runner-up Nebraska Photographer of the Year and 2002 through 2006 Nebraska Photographer of the Year. A graduate of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Miller served as staff photographer, senior photographer and photo chief at the Daily Nebraskan. He was graduated in 2000.
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